Eh, I think it's a stretch to say that any possible dependency on little-endian can be rounded down to "poor design". If you're operating with a format or proto

Eh, I think it's a stretch to say that any possible dependency on little-endian can be rounded down to "poor design". If you're operating with a format or protocol that's unconditionally little-endian, then it takes strictly less work to operate on the data structures in place, or on direct bitwise copies of the data structures, rather than conditionally transforming the values to native-endian, operating on them, and conditionally transforming them back to little-endian. You can argue that everyone's code ought to take the longer route due to the existence of big-endian systems, but that's what this blog post is arguing against.